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I recently received my annual Domain Name Bill, which reminds me that GubMints.com is now a petulant 2 Year Old!

Year 2 was a change – A new job (private sector) has kept me quite busy. My Quality of Life has increased as my commute time has been reduced by ~10 hrs per week.

The new gig has removed me from some ‘water cooler’ discussions regarding Fed Benefits that I was more engaged in during Year One, but I still keep an eye on things, as

Federal Travel Regulations affect all of us, and

I am a Deferred FERS Retiree who still keeps watch over TSP and FERS issues like a hawk (again, don’t ask me about CSRS- If you’re retired on CSRS you’ve won the equivalent of the lottery- You should be doing donuts in your Ferrari around the 18th green every day of the week, and twice on Sunday).

There are a handful of TSP Millionaires out there. Some made it by rolling-in a windfall from their Private Sector career, but some earned it the good-old-fashioned way. It’s good to hear stories about Federal Employee ‘Turtles’ who were able to win the Retirement Race.

PlanSmartChoice is a good place to start when looking at FEHB plans, but there is a darn good reason that over 40 percent of Feds use one of the ‘Blues’ for their Health Plan.ObamaCare – Veterans Should not Apply

This is the third update to my first post regarding ObamaCare. The DoD finally issued some guidance in telling its active, retired, and reserve service members that TriCare meets the ‘Minimum Essential Coverage’ requirement, and that TriCare is an alternative to your state’s local ObamaCare exchange.

Hope you’ve enjoyed the Second Act – Let me know what topics you’re interested in using the Comments or Contact section!

As of 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka ObamaCare (I will use the more popular nickname for the rest of the article) is being listed as an option on the military’s Tricare website.

There’s no neon sign at the top of the Tricare page alerting you to this fact. It’s not listed as a disclaimer, waiver, footnote, or disclosure on the page. You have to read between the lines and click around to figure this out.

On Tricare’s page about ObamaCare, it states that any of the Tricare plans (plus the ‘US Family Health Plan’) meets the Obamacare ‘Minimum Essential Coverage’ standard as of 2014. In other words, if you’re enrolled in one of the Tricare plans, you ‘don’t need to take any action at this time’.